How to Automate App Volumes Application Packaging with Dynamic Environment Manager Integration

App Volumes is an efficient and powerful application delivery platform. And Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) makes the configuration and deployment of personalised desktops easier, faster, and more efficient. Access Capture, the industry-leading product from Access IT Automation, allows you to take these innovative VMware platforms and solutions to another level with enhanced automation.

Even with DEM, application packaging and deployment can be a tedious process. Often prone to errors, especially when you are working with large numbers of applications.?

In this blog, Access Capture can make it easier for your technical teams to use the powerful features of DEM to manage your end-user profiles. Read on to learn more and watch our insightful video.?

Key Components

Before going into how Access Capture automates App Volumes package creation, let’s first define the key components:

• DEM – VMware's platform lets you manage user settings and applications in almost any environment, including virtual, cloud-based, and physical Windows desktops. This gives users a consistent and reliable experience across all devices and locations.
• DEM Application Profiler – a solution from VMware that makes it easy to create and update Flex configuration files.
• Flex configuration files – files that contain DEM settings data for each application.
• Access Capture – Access IT Automations application management product automatically discovers, packages, tests, and publishes applications on a large scale

App Volumes Packaging Using Access Capture

Here’s a video that demonstrates how Access Capture automatically creates application packages in App Volumes formats:

Enter the Settings

First, tell Access Capture what you want to achieve. Including the application you want to repackage, its location, and the formats you want to create – VMDK, VHD, or both.

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Automated App Volumes Packaging

Access Capture then automatically gets to work creating the new application package. It does this by spinning up a virtual machine in the background before taking a new snapshot. The new application package is then created with Access Capture automatically installing, capturing, and repackaging in the required App Volumes format.

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DEM Application Profiler Integration

Access Capture can be configured to be? integrated with the DEM Application Profiler. With this integration in place, a Flex configuration file is automatically created as part of the Access Capture application packaging process. This enables the application to be deployed to users via DEM. The application can also be configured to deliver personalised settings to users.

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Final Process

Access Capture automatically completes the final stages of the process. Details of the Access Capture job can also be viewed.

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Benefits of Using Access Capture for App Volumes Application Packaging

There are three main benefits of using Access Capture when packaging applications in App Volumes formats:

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More Effective Use of Resources

Automatically creating application packages and Flex configuration files, freeing up your technical resources to focus on more valuable tasks such as optimising the user experience and overall system performance.

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Improved User Experience

Users will have the applications they need, in the right format, with the right settings - and no delays. This applies to common applications as well as legacy and organisation-specific applications.

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Eliminate Errors

Manually packaging applications in App Volumes formats is tedious and can also result in errors. These errors are eliminated when you automate the process using Access Capture.

Tailored Support

App Packaging and Flex configuration are just two of the things you can do with Access Capture. In our next blog,, we’ll discuss it’s seamless automation for user acceptance testing (UAT)?

Our team is always available to provide customised support, tailoring Access Capture to your requirements.?

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